Seated female musician playing a portative organ

  • Seated figure. Seated female musician playing a portable organ

Summary

: Seated female musician playing a portative organ

: Bloomsbury, England, United Kingdom
Location type : Museum

: London, England, United Kingdom

: 14

: 1280 -1320

: Sculpture

: Ivory

: Gothic Ivories

: Seated female musician playing a portable organ

: On the back of the comb, a couple is carved, we can distinguish the same woman without her instrument represented in a courteous scene. A man seems kneeling before her (the element is almost completely destroyed). Double comb preserved at the British museum. New links : http://www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk/images/ivory/49917467_02c2b61b.html


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: Anna Devaux

Performer(s)
    • Performer information
    Type: singer, musician

    Genre: female

    Posture: sitting

    Character quality or function: lay

    Comment: The element is very damaged, but it seems that the organist sings. A monstrous head appears in the scoop above the musician; a character is in front of her, but it is almost entirely destroyed. The organist sits under a small trilobed arcade.

    Instrument information
    Instrument : organ - (Hornbostel-Sachs system: 412.1-8 )




Number of performers: 1

Function of the sound: seduction

Context of the sound: aristocratic music, courtly music